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BMP image parser vulnerability

Published May 22, 2007

Description

The BMP image parser in Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) before 1.5.0_11-b03 and 1.6.x before 1.6.0_01-b06, and Sun Java Runtime Environment in JDK and JRE 6, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 10 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_14 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_19 and earlier, when running on Unix/Linux systems, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (JVM hang) via untrusted applets or applications that open arbitrary local files via a crafted BMP file, such as /dev/tty.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

References (57)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published May 22, 2007
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved May 21, 2007
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Critical
Public date May 21, 2007